Editorial: One year on from Russia’s full-scale invasion, the international repercussions are still being felt
to pass another resolution demanding Russia’s unconditional withdrawal by an overwhelming majority.
Yet this was never, as some initially portrayed it, simply a story of Russia against the rest – nor even, as many in the west still believe, the emergence of a bipolar world in which the west and allied democracies face off against a Chinese-Russian bloc. India abstained on a previous denunciation of Moscow at the general assembly; many of the countries that backed the resolution – such as Brazil – were unwilling to take further action.
Many leaders and publics in the global south, even in democracies, are cynical about grand declarations by western leaders that they are backingsolely to defend democracy. This is partly historical. South Africa has been conducting military exercises with Russia and China; the ruling ANC received Soviet and Chinese support when the west turned a blind eye to apartheid. People point to the US and its allies backing dictators and toppling elected leaders and the disastrous invasion of Iraq.
The sense of hypocrisy is heightened by the lack of attention in the west to what has probably been a
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